Code against the Central Certificate Store in Win Server 2012

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Hi there,

I would like to know if anyone has experience with accessing the Central Certificate Store(CCS) found in Win Server 2012 from .NET code? To be more detailed read below:



1. I have a website which dynamically loads specific certificates used for different web services. This works well and is done like this:

_client.ClientCredentials.ClientCertificate.SetCertificate(StoreLocation.LocalMachine, StoreName.My, X509FindType.FindBySerialNumber, certificateSerialNumber)

Where _client is of type System.ServiceModel.ClientBase

2. Right now I have several different webservers. My website is running on each of these. I currently need to have all certificates on all of these webservers as any of these servers can perform the web service request.

3. I would like to have a single server with the certificates to ease the certificate maintenance. I have seen that Win Server 2012 provides this through the centralized certificate store(CCS). However, I cannot see that .NET provides an API for accessing the CCS. I am looking for something like:

_client.ClientCredentials.ClientCertificate.SetCertificate(StoreLocation.CCS, X509FindType.FindBySerialNumber,"myCCSServer", certificateSerialNumber)

Hope it makes sense. I am ready to elaborate if needed.

Thanks